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To L. A. Errera   8 August [1878]

Leith Hill Place | Dorking

Aug 8th.

Dear Sir

I regret extremely that you should have had the trouble of going to Down for nothing.— I left home before the Post arrived yesterday; otherwise I shd. have written before.—1

I hope that your interesting researches on cross-fertilisation progress favourably2 & I remain | Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | Ch. Darwin

Footnotes

1
CD had left Down on 7 August 1878 and was away until 22 August (CD’s ‘Journal’ (Appendix II)). The cover of the letter indicates that it was sent to London, but forwarded to Belgium.
2
Errera and Gustave Gevaert had published a summary of Cross and self fertilisation. Errera, who was a doctoral candidate at the Free University of Brussels, had told CD that he wanted to study the fertilisation of inconspicuous flowers (see Correspondence vol. 25, letter from L. A. Errera, 10 October 1877).

Bibliography

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Cross and self fertilisation: The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom. By Charles Darwin. London: John Murray. 1876.

Summary

Regrets that LAE went to Down for nothing.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-11644
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Léo Abram Errera
Sent from
Leith Hill Place
Postmark
AU 8 78
Source of text
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.544)
Physical description
ALS 1p

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11644,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11644.xml

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